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Yeah, but 7kg of ore wouldn’t cost $1.5 million.

This could use some specific examples to illustrate the phenomenon. I can think of a few from recent memory:

- The way Obamacare was sold to the public, which was highly deceptive. See ACA architect Jonathan Gruber’s comments about how it passed because of the voters’ “stupidity.”

- The CDC telling us not to wear masks because they wouldn’t help, and then telling us to wear them; and finding out that the first recommendation was an intentional lie.

- Pretty much everything the media reports about race.

Tangential note, it’s exciting to see someone using MPS. It’s an interesting and possibly transformative software technology that seems ahead of its time.

I’d say this is perhaps a bit of a violent oversimplification, but still contains some useful perspectives. Work to live, don’t live to work.

Related topic: how can a writer monetize their interactive fiction?

To be clear, there are two versions of the PM522; one of them has hardened steel liners for the chambers. That’s the one I’d trust.

There are a couple fairly recent designs for 3D printed guns that are useful weapons, certainly better than the pipe-wood-and-nail arrangement. For example, the Washbear PM522 and the Liberator 12K shotgun.

But as another poster pointed out, ammunition is a completely different matter and is really the gating factor in all of this.

Wow, talking of rhetorical tricks. In this case, a textbook false dilemma.

The right to bear arms does not negate whatever right to safety you think you have. There are 300 million privately owned firearms in the US. Yet the odds of dying from a firearm homicide are quite small.

> “Human rights” are a fiction, like money.

There are countless dictators and tyrants who agree with you on that.

It’s not a theory, it’s an axiomatic principle. Oppression does exist, and it’s an affront to that principle.

It is perhaps the single most fundamental aspect of American culture. Though of course, certain people want to subvert that principle in order to aggregate power for themselves and their interest groups. I hope they eventually see the light and embrace America, or meet the same end as the redcoats.

There are literally millions of defensive uses of firearms every year. Source: the CDC. https://repository.gheli.harvard.edu/repository/12225/

The First and Second Amendments don’t grant you the right to free speech and to bear arms. Being born a human being is where those rights come from. The amendments simply proscribe the government from infringement upon them. Not a hundred SCOTUS judges, not a thousand, not a million of them will change that.

If someone is legally in the US, why would they fear having their life uprooted by having to show their papers?

One way to make your life easier is to use a JetBrains IDE with the AWS Toolkit extension. Many of the pain points you’re experiencing are greatly eased by that.

Doesn’t this depend on whether those homeowners have borrowed against their (rising) equity? I wonder what fraction of homeowners actually do so. Personally I wouldn’t dream of it, so rising prices don’t really affect my lifestyle at all.

Lab-grown meat will taste exactly the way consumers expect meat to taste, for the same reason orange juice does.

Bitcoin is in some ways preferable, since you’re not subjected to violence if you choose not to participate in it.

You must have read a different book than I did, then. Because the book you read seems to completely ignore the battles Cleve Jones and others fought within the gay community. Keep in mind, the very title of the book was meant to apply to everyone involved in this crisis. Everyone. To miss that point is, frankly, dangerous.

I’d recommend “And The Band Played On” for a thoughtful and well-researched narrative of the early AIDS crisis. There was plenty of blame to go around, including for the CDC and the gay communities.

You should add to that the hypersexualization of commercial culture, and in fact the commercialization of sex itself by apps like Tinder and Grind.

Though, it’s perhaps a bit unfair to call the behavior idiotic - I do think people who engage in self-destructive promiscuity do so out of pain, or due to commercial manipulation that they aren’t savvy enough to resist.

He was a modern-day Erasmus, something we desperately need right now.

My suggestion is that you gameify this. Add daily challenges, unlock achievements, and compete with others using the app in your area. Crush your friends at staying grateful and you get exclusive skins to download for the app. Really, engagement is the key.

Then you are either using a bad debugger, or you're not using one properly. A good, fully-featured debugger allows you to store sessions and configurations for various efforts and problems you're trying to diagnose, along with your notes and links to relevant issues.

Exactly, in fact it’s the opposite of anything. I’ve seen plenty of life sciences companies where the bioinformatics team was added on long after founding the company, almost as an afterthought.

There’s a Russian saying, “Your friends are the ones who can tell you ‘no.’”

San Antonio is one of the friendliest, kindest, and most delightfully understated places I’ve ever visited. Whatever it is that makes it that way, let’s spread it across America.

This would be news to me, but it would explain a lot. It always seemed unlikely that Sci-Hub’s archive was entirely contributed by concerned citizens.

Phishing, though, crosses the line. Once you start tricking people and removing their agency, you’re the bad guy.

This is cynical and yet at the same time reassuring, since the entire crypto world is mysterious to me. I’ve never bothered to understand it, and it can be frightening to think that it might be the future, as inscrutable as it is.

This is in fact a common strategy. Often the “submersibles” aren’t self-propelled and are basically underwater barges trailing a fishing or leisure boat.